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Implementation of and Experimentation with Ground-Penetrating Radar for Real-Time Automatic Detection of Buried Improvised Explosive Devices.
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Sensors (14248220) . Nov2022, Vol. 22 Issue 22, p8710. 21p. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- This paper proposes the implementation of and experimentation with GPR for real-time automatic detection of buried IEDs. GPR, consisting of hardware and software, was implemented. A UWB antenna was designed and implemented, particularly for the operation of the GPR. The experiments were conducted in order to demonstrate the real-time automatic detection of buried IEDs using GPR with an R-CNN algorithm. In the experiments, the GPR was mounted on a pickup truck and a maintenance train in order to find the IEDs buried under a road and a railway, respectively. B-scan images were collected using the implemented GPR. R-CNN-based detection for the hyperbolic pattern, which indicates the buried IED, was performed along with pre-processing, for example, using zero offset removal, and background removal and filtering. Experimental results in terms of detecting the hyperbolic pattern in B-scan images were shown and verified that the proposed GPR system is superior to the conventional one using region analysis processing-based detection. Results also showed that pre-processing is required in order to improve and/or clean the hyperbolic pattern before detection. The GPR can automatically detect IEDs buried under roads and railways in real time by detecting the hyperbolic pattern appearing in the collected B-scan image. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14248220
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 22
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Sensors (14248220)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 160465883
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/s22228710